Hilary Duff visited ‘Late Night with Conan O’Brien’ to promote her new film ‘Raise Your Voice’. Hillary talked about being young and famous, her dating life, travelling, disguises, her ’80s fashion style, her kissing scene in ‘Cinderella Story’, and strawberry-flavored Gushers, and she showed off her gymnastic skills. Read on for a transcript. Conan: All right, everybody. My first guest tonight is a singer and an actress. You know her as the star of the popular tv show “lizzie mcguire,” and the film “a cinderella story.” Beginning friday, you can see her in the film “raise your voice,” please welcome, she’s a phenomenon, hilary duff.

[ Cheers and applause ]

Conan: Thanks for being here.

Hilary: Thank you for having me. I’m so excited.

Conan: This is —

[ Woman in audience screams ]

Hilary: Thanks.

Conan: Settle down. That woman’s 85.

[ Laughter ] No, this is — I mean, there’s — I haven’t had a guest like you in a while. Who’s — you’ve conquered so many areas of show business. And you just — how old are you? You just had a birthday.

Hilary: I just turned 17.

Conan: Just turned 17. I conquered show business — it took me — I was 59 when I finally did it.

[ Light laughter ] But you just turned 17 last week. You’ve gotta be busy all the time. Do you even have time to go out on a date, or something? Is that possible? Can you have a personal life?

Hilary: I don’t really have a personal life right now. Like, I don’t really go on dates. But, I could, you know, if there was someone to date.

Conan: Oh, really? It’s one of those situations. That was my excuse in high school when I couldn’t find anybody. “I’m too busy!”

[ Laughter ] And then I’d go home and just cry for hours.

[ Hilary awws ] Sad story. I’ll tell you more later.

[ Light laughter ] But you just don’t have the time, right?

Hilary: It’s hard. Like, I’m always traveling, you know, and I’m done with — I finished high school. So, it’s like, where am I supposed to meet anybody? You know, and I’ traveling, and also, by the time I meet somebody in the business, like, everybody’s gets all over it. Yeah, because that’s another problem, is that you’ve become so famous, that it must be hard for you to go someplace and just be yourself. Or just — do you disguise yourself when you go anyplace?

Hilary: I don’t know. I mean, like, if you are at a restaurant, and you see someone walking in that has, like, a hat and glasses, you’re like, “who’s hiding under there?” You know? So, that doesn’t really work.

Conan: Right. Right.

Hilary: I’ve never tried, like, a wig, or anything.

Conan: You’ve never tried a mustache, or dressing like charlie chaplin, or something?

Hilary: No, because then I think if somebody, like, found out that it was me, and they were like, “hilary!” Then I’d just be embarrassed that I was wearing a mustache, or something, you know?

Conan: Right. Right. Well, especially a mustache would be really stupid. Don’t take my advice on these things. You know what’s weird? When I walk around, sometimes I’ll be like, “I don’t wanna, you know, go unnoticed,” so I’ll wear a hat, or something. I’m 6’4″, with a giant red pompadour, and so —

[ Laughter ]

Hilary: Well, you know what? I saw you the other day at the, four seasons in L.A.

Conan: Oh, yeah. We were out there for the emmys. Out there with my wife and —

Hilary: And I was doing a press junket.

Conan: Right.

Hilary: So, I didn’t want to bother you.

Conan: Meaning you didn’t know who the hell I was.

[ Laughter ]

Hilary: I did! I did!

Conan: Very nice.

Hilary: You’re very tall.

Conan: You’re like, “hey, ted koppel!”

[ Laughter ] Now, you did not — you didn’t go to high school. You’ve been tutored. ‘Cause you’ve been working constantly. Are you sad that you didn’t get to go to a high school prom and have that experience like everybody else?

Hilary: I don’t know if I’m sad. Like, I feel really luck like, to do everything that I’m doing right now. But my friend and I, actually, we threw an ’80s prom night in my friend’s house, and nobody could come unless they were all dressed up. So, that was very fun.

Conan: So, everyone came dressed up as what? In ’80s style?

Hilary: ’80s. Everyone had to go to, like, vintage stores. And you should’ve seen, like, we had crazy hair, and like, big bows, and sequins, and it was very fun.

Conan: Well, I’m sure it was — if you’re 17, and you’re, for fun, dressing up in the ’80s style, it must be really fun and funny. For those of us who had to live through that time —

[ Laughter ] — That’s not funny. I still have the acid-washed, big shoulder-padded thing in my closet that I wore when I was going to a flock of seagulls concert.

[ Laughter ] With the big hair, and I was like, “whoo!”

[ Laughter ] It was a bad, bad time. So throw those clothes away.

Hilary: Okay.

Conan: Now, there’s a coincidence. Yesterday, on the show, we had mr. Chad michael murray on the program. And he was talking about how he had a kissing scene with you in “cinderella story,” and that you guys — he just — he never got specific, but he said there was a little trouble with the kissing scene, and you guys had to work on it. And I thought, “well, I know nothing about the movie business, how does that even work?”

Hilary: Well, what happened was, like, we had been working together for three days. It was, like, the very beginning shoot of the movie. We had never met each other —

Conan: You meet each other and you just start to work with each other.

Hilary: Right. And we have, like, this really big kissing scene, and it’s in front of, like, a bleacher full of, like, 300 people, a crew, everything. And it’s, like, really specific, since it’s, like, supposed to rain and everything, and there are all these problems, and the director wasn’t happy. So, he’s like, “well, let’s go into the trailer and practice.” The director says. And I’m like, “uh, okay.” And we go into the trailer, and he’s sitting there, and he’s like, “hmm. Hmm.” I’m, like, mad. It was, like, a little creepy and a little weird.

Conan: Who is this guy?

[ Laughter ] That’s the thing I’m wondering. How old is this guy?

Hilary: I’m not sure. He’s a really — he’s a really nice guy.

Conan: Oh, I’m sure he’s a really nice guy. “Uhhh, I want to see you two teenagers kiss! Oh, yeah!”

[ Laughter ] “Yeah! Do that again! Yeah!”

[ Applause ] What would you have done if, at some point, t real director came in and was like, “who’s this guy? Get out of here!”

[ Laughter ] “I’ll be back!” And ran way.

Hilary: Funny.

Conan: Now, you’re on tour?

Hilary: Yes.

Conan: And like a lot of people who are in the music business, you probably have — it’s called having a rider in your contract, and it’s famous, where you can have, they’re famous, like, “I want jack daniels.”

Hilary: All the green m & ms picked out, or something?

Conan: Yeah, “I want all the green m & ms gone.” What do you have in your —

Hilary: I don’t — I think I have, like, the smallest rider out of everyone. Like, I’ve heard some really crazy things, but, we have, like, just food, you know, so everyone isn’t hungry, and actually, I really like these candies. It’s really bad for you, they’re called “gushers,” and they’re, like, filled with this liquid stuff, and they’re really, like —

Conan: Is it a gum, or just a candy?

Hilary: No, it’s — it’s like, it comes in a package, and it’s got, like, little, it’s not like candy, but it’s definitely not good for you. It’s like, gummy-type —

Conan: Something that’s not good for you ’cause you won’t get sent free boxes of it by mentioning it on the show.

Hilary: And she’ll put candles, but it’s not like I request it. Like, she does it ’cause she’s a nice lady, you know?

Conan: That’s cool. Now, you do a version of the song “my generation,” the favorite — one of my favorite bands of all time is the who. And they do this great song, “my generation,” but there’s this famous line in that song, “i hope I die before I get old.” And you’ve changed it for your version.

Hilary: Basically, it’s just, like, a little more dramatic than some of the movies that I’ve done before, and it has a really interesting cast. Like, rita wilson plays my mom. And john corbett’s kind of, like, the mentor. And —

Conan: He’s the music teacher.

Hilary: Yes. And jason ritter plays my brother, and it’s just, like, very, you know, a big tragedy happens to this girl, and it’s all about, like, perseverance, and she goes off to this school to be, like, a singer and a songwriter. And it’s very interesting.

Conan: All right. Let’s take a look at this clip from “raise your voice.”

Hilary: I mean, I like you. A lot.

Hilary: Yeah, I like you, too. I was thinking about that song we were working on the other day. I think we should do it for our final performance piece. You sing up there, you could spread this collection, and we could write something very meaningful. Okay?

Hilary: Yeah. Do you wanna try that again?

[ Cheers and applause ]

Conan: Wow, very good voice. Now, is the camera turning, or are they turning you?

Hilary: You know, we actually had, like, five minutes to shoot that scene. And there was, like, a camera track that was going around.

Conan: That’s the weird thing —

Hilary: Oh, no, we were dancing. So, we were, like, having to —

Conan: Do they have you on a lazy susan for that scene?

[ Laughter ] Where someone’s going —

[ Conan makes squeaky noises ]

[ Laughter ] I just wanted to do the sound effect. “Raise your voice” opens this friday. And hilary duff, thanks so much for making time for us.